[geeks] Does anyone know ...

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Mon Jul 31 11:05:14 CDT 2006


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sat, 29 Jul 2006 @ 12:32 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
>> ... any way to clear individual data items (specifically, obsolete email
>> addresses) out of Firefox's saved form data cache without just purging
>> the entire data cache?
> 
> It seems the feature to edit form data has been removed, though you can
> still edit saved passwords.
> 
> Current documentation on the Mozilla site still tells you that you can
> do what you want by going to Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Forms, but it
> doesn't work.
> 
> Forms is not "Saved Forms", and there is only an option to clear the
> data and set what gets cleared, no way to edit.
> 
> There might still be an extension for doing this, so I'd browse the
> extensions list first.

Yeah, that's about where I got to.  I haven't *seen* a foirm data
editing extension, but I was wondering if anyone knew how to go in and
frob the cache files directly (for example).


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